After the pandemic, we all know how important it is to maintain a strong immune system, particularly among people over 65. Now, as we’re heading into cold and flu season, you want to devote your new awareness to taking positive steps for your health every day.
Regular exercise is among the best things you can do for your immune system. Staying strong strengthens your body against inflammation, diseases, and infections, weakening our aging immune systems.
Also, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, get plenty of water, and avoid processed foods. Be sure your diet includes citrus, spinach, and broccoli, plus chicken, salmon, tuna, and green vegetables; nuts, seeds, and spinach; tea, garlic, miso, and ginger.
Other tips
- Stay at a healthy weight. Abdominal fat triggers inflammation and increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
- Get enough sleep.
- Wash your hands frequently—another good lesson we all learned in the last year—and be sure to cook meat thoroughly.
- Don’t spend too much time in the sun.
- Discuss your diet with your doctor and ask him or her about vitamin supplements. Many mature adults don’t eat often enough during the day or consume the necessary variety of foods, causing a form of malnutrition that can weaken the immune system.
- Limit drinking alcohol; don’t smoke at all.
- Manage chronic stress as much as possible related to family, friends, work problems, etc.
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